All episodes of “Good American Family” are now streaming on Hulu, and while the show, which describes the controversial adoption of Natalia Grace to Kristine and Michael Barnett, and her actual age amidst abuse allegations. Got off to a slow and at times, ridiculous beginning, it “steadied the plane” to become a serviceable drama.

Here Five Take aways after the finale of “Good American Family”:

The show was never really about Ellen Pompeo expanding her range: After the first couple of episodes, our Meredith Grey became pretty scarce until the finale. At times, she felt almost like a ghost they were talking about like a myth.

It was about Imogen Faith Reid and everyone else: Imogen Faith Reid gave the best performance of the series, and when Christina Hendricks joined in half way through the show as Cynthia, it moved on to another level. And the cowardly Michael played by Mark Duplass had some undeniably both funny and sad moments in this mess.

The perspective switch was everything: I was thinking about quitting the show before we got to see Natalia’s side of the story. That’s when the actual drama took place, as opposed to the Barnett’s world, where she was an over the top villain.

They should have leaned into “Orphan” from the jump: Many people (including myself) recognized the common ties to the film “Orphan”. Showrunners did too. They should have tackled that in the marketing. It could have won over some more eyeballs while disarming the cynics.

Good American Family fit in nicely with Hulu/Disney Plus programming: I enjoyed being able to watch this after Handmaid’s Tale and before Daredevil: Born Again. That is the kind of variety that keeps subscribers subscribed. Wednesday is a solid real world drama time.

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